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In all ages men have been led into error more or less 
deadly, and every age has been marked by its own peculiar 
errors. Many of these errors have been mischievous, and 
some of their effects seem almost incredible at this distance. 
But there are indications in the Prophetic Word that the 
closing days of this Dispensation are to be marked by errors 
and delusions still stranger and more injurious. 

In Paul’s graphic portrayal of ‘‘last day”? conditions (2 
Tim. 3: 1), and his specific prophecy of demoniac teachings 
in ‘‘the latter times’’ (1 Tim. 4:1), we may find plenty of 
ground for apprehension. And in his other statement—re- 
ferring to conditions theninthe future—that upon those 
who ‘‘believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unright- 
eousness,’’ God would in some instances send 

“A Strong Delusion,”’ 
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conditions. 

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character of genuine ‘‘delusions’’ which meet us on every 
hand. Men and women of apparent good common sense, 
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most unreasonable theories, and sometimes go into the 
‘strangest of practises. Not that these delusions have no 
counterpart in the past, but thatin the present they may 
be found in greater numbers, and exhibiting greater 
delusive power, than at any other period of human history. 

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an error which is sure to die a natural death, and which 
is quite likely to be strengthened by opposition. And, 
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will say that a System which, less than forty years 
old, nevertheless claims hundreds of thousands of 
_ openadherents in the United States; whose papers ad- 
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evangelical church—such a System has certainly reached 

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against its errors should not be considered thrown away. 

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- Science is found everywhere, and the spirit of propa- 
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THESE ARE FACTS which settle forever the question 
whether, if an error, Christian Science should beig- , 
nored, or boldly and thoroughly exposed. To show this — 

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Is It CHRISTIAN? Is It SCIENTIFIC? 


By Rev. E. P. Woopwagp. 


A Discourse delivered in Portland, Maine, April 22, 1900, revised 
and enlarged. 


“Turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of 
Science — falsely so called, which some, professing, HAVE ERED 
CONCERNING THE FAIrH.” 1 Tim. 6: 20. 

There was a time when, in introducing a new thing, 
it mattered little whether it was in accord either with 
Christianity or with Science. Questions were not set- 
tled from either of those standpoints. But that day has 
passed. There must now be at least a show either of 
Christianity or of Science, in order to get a respectful 
hearing either in the Church or in the World. Any 
System which bears the label of Christianity or of Sci- 
ence, is quite likely to havea fair show among other 
Systems; and however grievous an error may be offered 
for human acceptance, we have only to proclaim that 
it is both “Christian” and “Scientific,” and a long step 
has already been taken toward securing for it a niche 
among the gods of the modern Pantheon. Because it 
is called “Christian,” the Church will listen to its 
claims: because it is considered “Scientific,” the World 
is preinclined to admit its assumptions. 

And there is- good reason for this. Christianity, 
against the mightiest odds, has fought its way from a 
place where contempt and scorn were freely poured on 
| its claims, and fire and sword became the heritage of 
| its followers, to a place of acknowledged supremacy 
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it has been marching on for near two thousand years— 
From the Scaffold to the Throne. 
And, in all future contests for religious supremacy, the 
contestants must reckon with the System founded by 
the Crucified One. And any religion in radical con- 
flict with the religion of the Man of Galilee, will sooner 
or later be driven to the wall. Christianity has come to 
stay. There may be. momentary indications of retro- 
gression; but the swing of the centuries will finally 
reveal the tremendous significance of Christ’s own pre- 
diction: —“He that falleth on this Stone, shall be 
broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, 17 
WILL SCATTER HIM AS DuST” (Matt. 21: 44, Rey. Ver.). 
It is likewise true that the world has come to enter- 
tain a profound respect for the wonderful discoveries 
and achievements of modern Science. The quiet, im- 
partial observation and record of the indisputable facts 
of the Universe, and the merciless logie with which 
conclusions have been deduced from those facts—all 
this has built up a system of Science which must be 
reckoned with by those who introduce new Philosophies. 
Even Christianity itself, unless it can bear the serutiny 
of exact Science, will finally lose its grip on human 
thought. And this is the peculiar glory of the religion 
of the Nazarene, that it has flourished under the 
fiercest light of modern and ancient scientific research. 
We have before us to-day a System—called a re- 
ligion—which claims the proud distinction of being 
both Christian and Scientific; which claims to be more 
Christian than the Christianity of the Churches, more 
scientific than the Science of the Schools; which claims 
to be the Simon-pure, original Christianity of Christ, 
and the Mistress of all Science—yea, the Science of 
God Himself—“ Divine Science.” And so marvelous 
and overshadowing are the claims and assertions of this 
System, that we easily perceive it to be either the one 


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correct System of faith and practise, to which we must 
all sooner or later give our allegiance, or one of the 
most stupendous frauds which the world has ever seen. 
There is no middle ground here. Christian Science is 
all it claims to be, or‘it is 

A Gigantic Fraud. 
It is either all right, or all wrong. 

Christian Science, as such, is confessedly of modern 
origin. Were we to admit that it is Primitive Chris- 
tianity, still it was not known as “Christian Science” 
until very lately. This being settled, we ask, When and 
How did it originate? A reply to this question is first 
in order. 

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, of Concord, N. H.,says in 
her book “Science and Health,” that she “discovered 
the Christ Science” “in the year 1866.” Just what 
was its form and appearance at this time, she does not 
tell us, but she does tell us that she “named it Chris- . 
tain Science.” According to this, the world owes to this 
woman both the fact and the name. Had it not been 
for her, we might still have been groping in ‘darkness: 
or, if not that, we might have been profoundly ignorant 
of what the wonderful discovery really was. Thanks 
to her, we now know all about it! : 

‘There are those who dispute this statement, and who 
boldly aver that Mrs. Eddy has simply palmed off on 
the world something which she herself learned from a 
certain physician, who, if I remember right, lived in 
Portland. And they are ungracious enough to quote 
from his writings to prove that she simply dresses up 
his ideas in her own language, giving his system of 
philosophy her chosen “name.” 

I have no interest in this controversy, as I shall deal 
with the principles and practical results of Christian 
Science, which are not changed by the question of its 
origin. It is undoubtedly true that many Christian 


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Scientists have repudiated Mrs. Eddy’s leadership, and 
consider her claims of priority unfounded. And we 
may all be sure of this,—if Mrs. Eddy’s teachings are 
true, they will stand against all questions of mere ori- 
gin: if they are false, no amount of “authority” will 
prevent their final overthrow. Considered as a matter 
of “majorities,’ Mrs. Eddy’s claim to be the High 
Priestess of the New Religion seems to be settled. 
She has written and published a considerable literature 
explaining and defining her views; “the Mother 
Church,” founded by her in Boston, is said to have six- 
teen thousand members; and the vast majority of Chris- 
tian Scientists regard her as the Founder of the System, 
and look upon her as almost if not quite inspired. Cer- 
tainly, her claims are something which must be reck- 
oned with in all our study of this subject. 

~ The “text book’”—Bible—of the New Religion, is 
the book just mentioned—“ Science and Health, with 
Key to the Scriptures.” This isa book of about 600 
pages, which is probably seldom read except by her 
followers. A writer once stated that Mohammed’s 
“Koran” had been read by only two men outside of 
the Moslem faith. Some years ago I discovered a third 
man. Certainly, hundreds have tried to read it, and 
have not had sufficient persistence to finish. I belong 
to that number. 

Although remembering my experience with the- 
Koran, before I dared to speak on Christian Science 
I knewI must read the “text book,’ however weari- 
some the task. And facing this necessity, I succeeded 
in wading through its pages. And I now havea dim 
idea that the Author is correct when she claims that a 
persistent perusal of this book has often cured disease ; 
for, a person who reads the book two or three times, 
has accomplished a physical and mental feat which 
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from disease! It did not work exactly that way 
with myself, possibly because I only read the book once. 
For, hardly had I finished my struggle with its “re- 
vealed truth,” when I found myself face to face with 
the prevalent Grippe, since which time I have had an 
experience Ido not care to have repeated. I think, 
however, I should prefer to die at once, and be done 
with it, rather than to be obliged to read the book 
twice more! 

I shall not answer the arguments of this book. In 
fact, I shall not say much about it. Passing by many 
things in it which are self-evidently true, and some of 
them very important; saying nothing about the endless 
reiterations and repetitions of statement; ignoring 
most of the self-evident absurdities scattered through- 
out the work; laying aside the many instances of 
flagrant misquotation and misapplication of Scripture, 
even in the so-called “Key” to the Scriptures; paying 
little attention to the outrageous logic displayed in 
much of her reasoning (if you have the patience to read 
the book, you can easily find all these things),—I shall 
accept as final her declaration that “Christian Science 
is fully stated in this book” (p. 454), and that “it is 
the voice of Truth to this age, and contains the whole 
of Christian Science” (p. 453); and, standing with un- 
covered head before her supremely modest assertion 
that “the statement of Christian Science” in this book 
is “revealed Truth, uncontaminated with human hy- 
pothesis” ( p. 453), I shall use the book only for a few 
brief quotations, and that simply to show what Chris- 
tian Science really is. If Christian Science ever produ- 
ces another “text book,” its statements and conclusions 
may be compared with what we find here. ‘Till then, 
we will allow Mrs. Eddy to speak “as one having au- 
thority, and not as the Scribes,” and we will judge her 
accordingly. 


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What is Christian Science? Wherein, as a Philoso- 
phy ora Religion, is the hiding of its power? What 
are its distinguishing characteristics? 

On page 7 we find “the fundamental propositions of 
Christian Science,” which we are told “ will be found to 
agree in statement and proof” “even if read backward.” 
After studying them carefully, I think possibly they 
will agree “even if read cornerwise.” You can try it 
and see. These propositions are four, and read as 
follows:— 

“1. God is All in all. 

“2. God is good. Good is mind. 

“3. God—Spirit being all, nothing is matter. 

“4, Life, God, omnipotent Good, deny death, evil, 
sin, disease.—Disease, sin, evil, death, deny Good, om- 
nipotent God, life.” 

At the very bottom of the System lie “the three 
great verities of Spirit—omnipotence, omnipresence, 
omniscience—Spirit possessing all power, filling all 
space” (p. 4). And these four propositions arethe four 
“corner stones” of the System. 

Put into “English,” we have the following equiva- 
lent:—God being al, there can be nothing else: there- 
fore anything which seems to exist besides God, 
must be an illusion. There being an infinite Spir- 
it, “matter” as such does not exist, and therefore it 
must also be an illusion. Consequently, not only is 
the whole visible universe an unreality, but sin, disease, 
pain and death are unreal. In short, our life—unless 
enlightened by the “revealed truth” of Christian Sci- 
ence—is all an zdlusion. We have no bodies, we do not 
dwell in a material world, we are never hungry, we 
never suffer pain, we are never sick, we never sin, there 
isno black catalogue of human crimes which ery to 
Heaven for judgment, there is no death. In fact, there 
is nothing but Spirit, spirit, spirit—not even spirits, for 


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is not God an infinite Spirit, and how then can there be 
room for other spirits? 
To be sure, it seems to the most of us that these. 
pleasant and unpleasant things are real—terribly real | 
at times. But that is simply an erroneous conception 


of “mortal mind.” “Mortal mind” sees a visible uni- | 


verse, suffers pain, has a “belief” of unspeakable agony, 
—but, it is all “in your eye.” Were we sufficiently ad- 
vanced in this wonderful Science, we should look be- 


yond all these delusive appearances, stand face to face | 


with God himself, unaffected by the changing “mortal’— 
beliefs which sometimes make life so hard to bear. 
And this is where Mrs. Eddy has the advantage of or- 
dinary mortals. She sees what the rest of us must 
guess at. “The clanging bells of Time” bring no dis- 
cord to her ear, and the fleeting vision of material 
things—even the “three silver dollars” which seem to 
“mortal mind” to be absolutely necessary for the pro- 
curing of her wonderful “text book’—smites not the 
undimmed eyes of her “soul!” 

As a practical side to all this, we have the system of 
Healing which is always closely identified with, and is 
generally considered to be a demonstration of Christian 
Science: a system which ignores hygiene and the laws 
of health, uses no manner of medicine or medical appli- 
ances, claims to cure even organic disease, and bids us 
look forward to the time when bodily mutilations may 
be made to disappear, and in some mysterious fashion 
death itself will cease. And the whole modus operandi 
of the system is the revelation to the individual patient 
of the alleged fact that. sickness and bodily infirmity are 
an “illusion.” In other words, whatever may be your 
feelings, you are not sick. And, when once you have 
accepted this “revealed truth,” all your “belief” in sick- 
ness and pain will disappear, and you will be well! 
Thus it is that Christian Science treats disease. 


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As to sin, or whatever you may call it, there isn 
such thing; and if no sin, then no forgiveness, and n 
judgment to come! Whatever troubles we may ex 
perience in this world, this is the great consolatio 
which Christian Science offers to sinful men. 

To substantiate the foregoing assertions, I will no 
make extracts from the “text book.” Some of the quo. 
tations may be difficult to understand, but the general 
drift of their meaning will undoubtedly be grasped. 
shall arrange them somewhat according to subjects, 
with running comments in brackets [ ] or following long 
dashes, . Marks of emphasis will be used without 
regard to the author’s use of the same. The reader 
will readily see the relation of these quotations to the 
summary of Christian Science teaching already given. 

Quotations from ‘‘Science and Health.’’ 

Gop. — “Mind is all, matter is naught” (p, 3). 
“There is but one primal Cause. Therefore, there can 
be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no 
reality in aught which proceeds not from this great and 
only Cause. Sin, sickness and death belong not to the 
science of Being [God]. They are the errors which 
presuppose the absence of reality” (p. 103.) “God is 
omnipresent. If he is all, and he is everywhere, what 
and where is matter” (p. 119)? “One only of the follow- 
ing statements can be true: (1) that everything is mat- 
ter; (2) that everything is Mind” (p. 166). “The 
Scriptures imply that God is Allin-all. From this it 
follows that nothing possesses reality or existence ex- 
cept Mind, God” (p. 226). “Since God is All, there is 
no room for his opposite” (p. 234). That is, the 
Universe being filled with God, has room for naught else. 

Hoty Guost, the Comforter.—“The triune God, . . _ 
God the Father, Christ the type of Sonship, Divine Sei- 
ence, or the Holy Comforter. These three express the 
threefold, essential nature of the Infinite” (p. 227). 


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“Divine Science, which is the Comforter, leading into 
all truth” (p. 227). Horny Guost—Divine Science” 
(Glossary, p. 579). 

Man.—“Man is spiritual, individual and eternal” 
(p. 66). “The great truth that man was, is, and ever 
shall be perfect, is incontrovertible” (p. 96). “Man is 
neither young nor old. He has neither birth nor death. 

. He does not pass from the mortal to the immor- 
tal” Gp. 140). “If man did not exist before the mate- 
rial organization began, he could not exist after the 
body is disintegrated. If we live after death, and are 
immortal, we must have lived before birth. For, if 
Life ever had any beginning, it must also have an end- 
ing” (p. 427). “The immortal [God] never produces 
the mortal [Man]” (p. 173). “Man is immortal, and 
the body cannot die, because it has no life to surrender. 

. If it be true that man lives, this fact can never 
change to the opposite belief, that he dies” (p. 424). 
“God—the Mind of man—never sins. . . . Man is the 
expression of God’s Being. . . . God, and all which he 
creates, are perfect and eternal” (p. 466). “Man is un- 
fallen and eternal” (p. 472). “Manis coexistent with 
God, and God is Spirit” (p. 475). “Man_ possesses 
nothing which he has not derived from God” (p. 531). 
“Man, never born or dying, but coexistent with his 
Creator” (p..549). In plainer phrase, man is a part 
of God—-the “All-in-all;” he has always existed, and 
always will exist; he was never created, and he is as 
perfect and sinless asis his Creator! This combines |. 
the doctrines of Plato—who based his theory of immor- 
tality on the assumption of a preexistent eternity, and 
the teachings of Pantheism—that “God is _everything, 
and everything is God.” 

Sprrit and Spirits—There is but one RIDILEOL 3 laifs 
there are neither spirits many, nor gods many” (p. 230). 
“The term sou/s or spirits is as improper as the term 


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gods. . . . There is no finite soul or spirit” (p. 462).—— 
Does not this mean that we are all parts of God? 

Marrer.—“Matter is but the subjective state of 
what is here termed mortal mind” (p.8). “Mortal 
matter, or body, is but a false concept of mortal 
mind” (p. 70). “Matter exists in human belief only” 
(p. 107). “Nothing we can say or believe regarding 
matter is true, except that matter is unreal” (p. 173). 
“Spirit and matter cannot coexist or cooperate; and 
one can no more create the other, than Truth can 
create error” (p. 175). “Trees, plants and flowers are 
ideas of Mind. Mind multiples them, and the product 
can be only mental” (p. 176). “Admit the existence of 
matter, and we admit that mortality (and therefore 
disease) has a foundation in fact. Deny the existence 
of matter, and we destroy the belief in these conditions; 
and with it disappears the foundation of disease” 
(p. 367). In other words, there being absolutely no 
room for anything except God, that which we call mat- 
ter must ‘be an illusion. 

Mortat Minp— What it is—“Mortal mind implies 

. ... something which has no real existence” (p. 8). 
“Mortal mind and body are one” (p. 70). “Body is the 
substratum of mortal mind” (p. 370). “Mortal mind is 
not an entity: it is only a false sense of matter” (p. 
398). “The material body, which you call me, is_ mortal 
mind” (p. 414). “MorraL minp—nothing claiming to 
be something” (Glossary, p. 583). “In reality, there is 
no mortal mind” (p. 283).——Which is all very plain, 
as clear as mud. 

Mortat Minp—What it does.—*Mortal mind con- | 
fers the only power a drug ever possesses” (p. 51). 
“Because the muscles of the blacksmith’s arm are strong- 
ly developed, it does not follow that exercise has pro- 
duced this result. ... The trip-hammer is not in- 
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mortal mind is not willing that result on the hammer” 

_ (p. 94). Query, how much “exertion” is put forth by 
atrip-hammer? “If it were not for what the human | 
[mortal] mind says of the body, the body would never 

| be weary, any more than the inanimate wheel” (p. 114). 
-“Gustatory pleasure is a sensuous illusion, a phantasm 
of mortal mind . . . Food neither strengthens nor weak- 

_ens the body” (p. 118). “Heat and cold are products of 
[mortal] mind” (p. 3873). “Mortal mind produces ani- 
mal heat. ... Heat would pass from the body as 

| painlessly as gas when it evaporates, but for the belief 

| that inflammation and pain must accompany this sep- 

aration” (p. 373). 

“You sprain the muscles, or wound the flesh... . | 
[mortal] Mind decides whether the flesh shall be discol- — 

-ored, painful, swollen or inflamed... . You say or 

think, because you have partaken of salt fish, that you 

must be thirsty, and you are thirsty accordingly: while 
the opposite belief would produce the opposite result’ 
(p. 3884). “While mortals [influenced by mortal mind] 
declare that certain states of the atmosphere produce 
catarrh, fever, rheumatism or consumption, those effects 
will foltow—not because of the climate, but on account__ 
of the belief” (p. 385). “A dislocation of the tarsal 
[ankle] joint would produce insanity as perceptible as 
that produced by congestion of the brain, were it not 
that mortal mind thinks *his joint less intimately con- 
nected with the mind than is the brain” (p. 407). 
How thankful we ought to be that “mortal mind” has™ 
not made our ankle joints the seat of intelligence! “We 
shall continue to be always beautiful and grand when- . 
ever mortal mind so decrees” (p. 142). What won- 
derful results from “Nothing claiming to be something!”’ 
' BELIEF—another name for “mortal mind.”—“This 

erroneous general belief [regarding the curative power 

of drugs]... produces all medical results” (p. 48). 


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“A man’s belief produces disease, and all its symptom 
_ (p. 53). “Science not only reveals the origin of all di 
ease as wholly mental, but it also declares that a 
disease is cured by mind. There can be no healin 
except by mind” (p. 62). “This [false belief] is th 
procuring cause of all disease” (p. 64). “Belief is a 
that ever enables a drug to cure mortal ailments’ 
(p. 67). “The sensation of sickness and sin exists onl 
in belief” (p. 107). “Coughs, colds and contagion ar 
engendered solely by mortal belief” (p. 116). “You 
mortal body is only a mortal belief of mind in matter’ 
(p. 871). “The sick, through belief, have induced their 
own stiff joints and cramped muscles” (p. 401). 
What a pity that we cannot discover some way to 
change our “belief” regarding the unpleasant things of 
this world! But listen to what follows! “From human 
belief comes the reproduction of the species” (p. 83). 
“Until itis learned that generation rests on no sexual 
basis, let marriage continue” (p. 274).——Thanks, 
ever so much! 

Lirr.—Life is real, death is the illusion” (p. 425). 
“Nothing that lives, ever dies” (p. 373). “Life is not 
contingent on bodily conditions” (p. 367). “If food 
preserves life, it cannot destroy it [through its deficien- 
cy or excess, in quality or quantity]. The fact is, food 
does not affect the real existence of men... . But, it 
would be foolish to venture beyond our present under- 
standing, foolish to stop eating until we gain more 
goodness, etc.” (p. 387). Certainly, it would be 
very foolish—as in the case of the Irishman who taught 
his horse to live without eating! 

Hycirnr.—“The daily ablutions of an ‘intone are no 
more necessary than would be the process of taking a 
fish out of water every day, and covering it with dirt” 
(p. 412). “You can even educate a healthy horse so far 
in physiology, that he will take cold without his 


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blanket” (p. 72). How unfortunate that so many of 
our horses have been recklessly furnished with instruc- 
(jon in physiology and hygiene! The practise should 
‘be prohibited by law! 

Sin, Sickness and Deatu.—*Sin, sickness and death,” 

.. . this triad of errors” (p. 302). “Sickness is a 
dream, from which the patient needs to be awakened” 
(p. 415). “The illusions . . . death, disease, sickness 
and sin” (p. 424). “The only reality of sin, sickness or 
death, is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to 
human belief, until God strips off their disguise. They 
are not true” (p. 468). “Sickness is an illusion... . 
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear 
made manifest’ on the body” (p. 489). “DEATH—an 
illusion. Any material evidence of death is false” 
(Glossary, p. 575). “In the illusion of death, mortals 
wake to the knowledge of two things: (1) that they are 
not dead; (2) that they have passed the portals of a new 
belief” (p. 147). “Decrepitude is not a law or necessity 
of nature, but an illusion, which may be avoided” (p. 
141). “Death will occur on the next plane of exist- 
ence, as on this, until the understanding of life is 
reached” (p. 243). Until! “If the belief in death 
were only obliterated, . . . this would be a tree of life” 
(p- 423). What a tremendous “if!” “When we 
wake to the truth of Being, all error, pain, weakness, 
weariness, sorrow, sin and death will be unknown, and 
the mortal dreams forever cease” (p. 114). “When,” 
O “when,”—aye, there’s the rub! How are we to get 
rid of these “illusions?” 

ForeIveness oF Srx.—‘To suppose that God for- 
gives or punishes sin, according as his mercy is sought 
or unsought, is to misunderstand Love, and make prayer 
the safety-valve for wrong doing” (p. 312). How 
providential that One has arisen who does not “misun- 
derstand Love!” 


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ResuRRECTION.—“Jesus said of Lazarus, ‘He is not 
dead, but sleepeth.’ He restored Lazarus [to life] by 
the understanding that he had never died—not by an 
admission that his body had died and then lived again. 
Had Jesus believed that Lazarus had lived or died in 
his body, he would have stood on the same plane of be- 
lief with those who buried the body, and he could not 
therefore have resuscitated it. When you can waken 
yourself or others out of the belief that all must die, 
you can then exercise Jesus’ spiritual power to repro- 
duce the presence of those who thought they had died” 
(p. 241). Read the following, “Then Jesus therefore | 
said unto them plainly, ‘Lazarus is DEAD’” (John 
11:14). “His disciples believed Jesus dead while he 
was hidden in the sepulchre, whereas he was alive” (p, 
349). “They saw him after his crucifixion, and learned 
that he had not died” (p. 351). Read again these 
words of an eye-witness: “When they came to Jesus, 
and saw that he was pEAD already, they brake not his 
legs. Howbeit, one of the soldiers with a spear pierced 
his side, and straightway there came out blood and 
water” (John 19: 38). 

Curist’s Seconp Comine.—“If sickness and sin are © 
illusions, the awakening from this mortal dream, or il- 
lusion, will bring us into health, holiness and immor- 
tality [Undoubtedly—if]. This awakening is the Com- 
ing of Christ” (p. 126). 

Tue JupGMENt to Comr.—No final judgment 
awaits mortals” (p. 187). How comforting to sinners! 

APPARENT PaARADOX.—“Cousumptive patients al-— 
ways show great hopefulness and courage, even when 
in hopeless danger [A very stubborn fact to be account-— 
ed for by those who claim that disease is always the ; 
product of “human belief!” How lucidly our author 
explains the seeming contradiction!] ... [This is] a 


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stage of fear so excessive that it amounts to fortitude” 
(p. 374). That settles it! 

IrreruTaBLe Loeic.—“If a dose of poison is swal- 
lowed through mistake, and the patient dies, even 
though physician and patient are expecting favorable 
results, does belief . . . . cause this death? Even so, 
and as directly as if the poison had been intentionally 
taken. In such cases, a few persons believe the potion 
swallowed by the patient to be harmless, but the vast 
majority of mankind, though they know nothing of 
this particular case, . . . believe the arsenic, the strych- 
/nine, or whatever the drug used, to be poisonous, for it 
has been set down as poison by mortal mind. The 
consequence is, that the result is controlled by the major- 
ity of opinions outside, not by the infinitesmal minority 
of opinions in the sick-chamber” (p. 70). 
‘reminds me of a statement quoted from Dr. Marston, a 
Christian Scientist, by H. A. St. John, in his pam- 
phlet, “Christian Science,” p. 15:—“The property of 
alcohol is to intoxicate; but, if the common thought 
[mortal mind] had endowed it with a nourishing qual- 
ity hke milk, i would produce a similar effect.” 
O, for a regenerated “common thought,” to convert the 
beer and rum and whiskey of prohibition Maine into 
harmless milk! 

“THe AuTHoR’s ExcesstvE Moprsty.—“The Divine 
| Science [another phrase for Christian Science] taught 
in the original language of the Bible [ Query, Is Mrs. 
Eddy familiar with the “original language” of the 
Bible? If so, will she tell us what that language is ?], 
‘came through inspiration, and needs inspiration to be 
understood” (p. 215). No claim of “inspiration” 
there for Mrs. M. B. G. E. No, indeed! “In 
‘this volume of mine, there are no contradictory state- 
‘ments [who would have suspected it!]—at least, none 
which are apparent to those who understand its 


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propositions well enough to pass judgment upon them’ 
{p- 291). A safe statement! 

This is a fitting close to these quotations, and on 
which reminds me of one of the opening sentence 
in the Koran—the “Bible” of the Moslem delusion: 

“There is no doubt in this Book.” 

Tf quotations from an author can make that author’s 
meaning plain, then the mysteries of Christian Science, 
as “discovered” by Mrs. Eddy, should be mysteries no 
longer. And it is to secure this result that these ex- 
tracts have been made much more freely than was my 
first intention. If you have failed to understand her 
meaning, the blame must be placed at her door. 

I might also quote extensively from other writers 
on Christian Science, but that would furnish no new 
light as to its principles. We will consider the case 
closed: for better or for worse, the System is now be- 
fore you, and the crucial questions call for answer—Is 
it Christian? Is it Scientific? I will try to answer 
them carefully, briefly and finally. 

Is it Christian? 
In the face of all its claims, I unhesitatingly answer, 
“No,” and these are my reasons:— 

1. It denies the reality of sin. Eyery one who has 
read the Bible honestly and carefully, knows that, from 
Genesis to Revelation, the existence and hateful nature 
of sin is affirmed with no uncertain sound. Over and 
over again, with a positiveness which leaves no room 
for doubt, we hear the thunders of Divine displeasure 
against sin. There are no words too ‘strong, no ‘no combi- 
nation of words too BASES G0 to be used. Again and 
again the statement of sin’s exceeding ‘sinfulness strikes 
on our consciousness like the voice of doom. The Rec- 
ord is filled with instances of God’s swift vengeance 
poured out on wilful sin in a manner which leaves no 
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punishment. And when we read the words of the gen- 
tle Nazarene—who claimed to have come into the 
world to save men from their sins—as he describes the 
terrors which will overtake sin in the world to come, 
all other written words pale and fade before their ter- 
rific brightness. 

If human language means anything, then Christ rec- 
ognized _asa_basic fact in this worl d, the grim reality 
of conscious, wilful, deliberate sin. If the Bible does 
not teach the reality of sin, as a stern, unwelcome fact 
in the universe of a righteous God, then we have no 
possible way to know what it does teach. If the words 
of the Bible do not mean this, then it would not be pos- 
sible to frame words which do mean it. While infinite 
tenderness is ever expressed towards him who sins, 
there is not a shadow of excuse or palliation for the 
sin itself. 

So terribly does sin seem to have aroused Divine 
wrath, so deadly a thing is it represented to be in God’s 
universe, that we are expressly told that, in his own 
good time, he will make an end of sin, even with the 
alternative ever before him, that to accomplish this it 
will finally be necessary to blot out of existence every 
incorrigible sinner! Men tellus that the words which 
describe this final outcome of sin are “figurative;” but 


if so, we may well stand appalled before the unimag- 
‘inable realities which they prefigure. _Yes, when 


' Christian Science denies the reality of sin, it gives 


Christianity the lie, and proclaims itself distinctly 
antichristian. 

2. It denies the reality of disease. The Bible every- 
where recognizes disease as‘among the awful effects 
which flow from sin as the primal cause. Christian 
Science boasts of its power over sickness—by denying 
its existence, and many instances are given of recovery 
from the “belief” of disease; but Christ always 


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recognized the fact that men were really sick, not suffer 
ing from an illusion: and to the vast numbers who 
sought his aid, he never intimated that their troubles 
were unreal, never hinted that pain was simply the re- 
sult of human belief, never suggested that sickness was 
not a sad reality. And, morever, he did what Christian 
Science has never begun to accomplish, “he healed them 
all.” And they were healed, not by reading a book of 
600 pages, but with a word, with a touch, and with an 
evidence of Divine power which puts to shame the 
grandest results of this latter-day delusion. 

3. It denies the reality of death. The Scriptures 
maintain from first to last, that death is the direct out- 
come of sin; and it is represented as something real, 
not to be ignored, not to be called an illusion or a 
dream. The work of Christ is distinetly stated to be, 
among other things, to “abolish death,” and to “destroy 
him that hath the power of death, that is the Devil;” 
not to abolish the belief in death, not to banish the il- 
lusion of mortality: and in not a single case do we find 
the slightest hint that death is unreal. In the vision 
of the redeemed earth, there is-“no more death.” Then, 
and not till then, do we see earth freed from the trinity 
of evil—sin, sickness and death. And that result is 
accomplished, not by convincing men of their unreality, 
but by the fires of judgment, followed by the flood-tide 
of life from the throne of God. Unless the Bible 
means exactly the opposite of what it says, sin, sick- 
ness and death are terribly real. And because of their 
reality, we have the revelation of that wonderful Per- 
son whose life is the marvel of the Bible record. 

4. It robs the world of its Saviour. If sin, sick- 
ness and death are illusions aud_ dreams, there is really 
nothing to be saved_from. Conyince men that all 1 all their 
supposed suffering is. simply a notion, dependent dent for : 
apparent existence on an erroneous belief, and the long, — 


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agonizing cry of the ages for salvation will forever 
ee Eat thon whee the world’s Saviour has disap- 
peared, men will be just as incapable as ever of saving 
themselves. Christian Science says.muchin.commen- 
dation of Jesus the Christ, but when it robs him of his 
‘glory as_the Saviour of men, it is a darker insult than 
was offered when he was betrayed by one disciple, and 
denied by another! And worse than all else, that 
“creat love ”’ wherewith “God so loved the world, that he 
| eave his only-begotten Son,” that the dark reign of Sin 
‘and Death might be brought to an end—this love is a 
‘figment of the imagination, if we for an instant admit 
/ that the background of human sin and woe is an illu- 
sion and adream. In fact, the grandeur and glory of 
Christianity is forever dimmed, when we admit this 
foundation claim of Christian Science. Here, as else- 
' where, this System is antichristian. 
5. It denies and confuses Christian doctrine gen- 
| erally. Sin_hbeing an illusion, there can be no forgive- 
/ ness of sin; and Death {ee “unreal, there is no 
resurrection _ ce the dead. In response to the Easter 
bells we are told that Jesus did not die at all. Asa 
' corollary to this thought, the terrible prophecies of 
coming retribution—the “Judgment to come’—are dis- 
missed as meaningless. Moreover, man_is_ eternal 
instead of mortal, God_is_no longer the © Creator—for 
nothing was ever created, and the story of creation is a 
beautiful myth. Like the Sadducees it denies the ex- 
istence of spirits, since there can be but one Spirit: the 
Et¢rnal Spirit is dragged from his place in creation and 
recemption, and Christian Science blasphemously 
usurps his throne; while the resplendent glories of 
Christ’s Second Coming are dwarfed into the 7 x 9 
facce of Christian Science in its crazy attempt to prove 
that something is nothing, and nothing is something! 
Christian Scientists make the healing of disease— 


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which does not exist!—the most prominent feature of 
their System, even a demonstration of its truth: in 
Christianity the healing of disease is strictly subor- 
dinate to its main work—salvation from sin. In this 
matter, Christian Science is a monstrosity, like a person 
dwarfed in body but with an overgrown brain. And 
the wonderful “Key to the Scriptures,” which gives 
such a scriptural appearance to Mrs. Eddy’s phase of 
the System, might well be termed, in popular phrase, 
“a screaming farce.” A “Key” which unlocks only 
three chapters and sixteen verses of Genesis, portions 
of three chapters in Revelation, the twenty-third Psalm, 
the Lord’s Prayer, and afew stray passages here and 
there elsewhere—and which does this unlocking by de- 
nying the plain sense of the words, or by mysterious 
phrases which simply confuse and add mystery to 
words easily understood before,—such a “Key” is a 
misnomer which ought to deceive no one, even if 
labelled “Christian!” 

In short, there is just about as much resemblance 
between this System and Christianity, as between the 
fabled Ox and the vain-glorious Frog who exploded in 
his efforts to show himself an Ox and nota Frog! It 
is hardly worthy of being considered an imitation of 
Christianity—rather a bungling caricature, which ought 
to deceive no one, and which would not, were there not 
personal reasons therefor. ) 

Is it Scientific? 

First, what is Science? “Knowledge gained and 
verified by exact observation and correct thinkin.” 
“Any department of knowledge in which the results) of 
investigation have been worked out and systematizedél.” 
Thus the Dictionary. That is, Science is both the réc- 
ord of observed facts. and the careful conclusions drawn 
from those facts. At the very foundation lie the faets, 
the things which are seen, heard and felt; and which, 


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taken together, constitute the visible world, the physi- 

cal universe. I know not whether our Christian Sci- 
ence friends would accept this definition of Science, but 
Iam sure that the “common belief” accepts it; and 
therefore, until they can change that belief, the defi- 
nition is correct for all practical purposes. Certainly, 
unless one has drank Mrs. Eddy’s new wine, and asa 
result has come to see things as drunken men usually 
see them, it will be satisfactory. 
| Admitting this definition, it is difficult to understand 
| how a person who denies the reality of every visible 
| thing, and who affirms that sun and moon and stars, 
_ the heavens above and the earth beneath, are simply 
| the dream of men whose bodies are as unreal as the 
things their fancy beholds; men who differ from the 
idols of the Psalmist’s day—of which he wrote, “They 
| have mouths but they speak not, eyes have they, but 
they see not’”—in this, that they speak and see with 
imaginary mouths and eyes,—it is difficult, I say, to un- 
derstand how those who believe all this, can ever use 
the word Science in connection with their imaginings. 
The fact remains, however, that they do, and with such 
persistency that, like the man who repeated a lie until 
he thought he was telling the truth, they have come to 
believe a le which is perfectly transparent to every un- 
prejudiced mind. In deference to their apparently 
honest belief, I will give a few reasons, apart from this 
general reason, why Christian Science is radically 
unscientific. 

1. Jt denies the foundation of true Science. Mrs. 
Eddy is undoubtedly correct when she says:—“Spirit 
is the life, substance and continuity of all things. We 
tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must 
collapse” (p.18). But, even in this statement she 
postulates the existence of a “creation”? which else- 
where she denies, and without which, we should be 


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perfectly ignorant of these forces. The fact that Spir- 
it lies beneath the visible creation does not make the 
creation unreal. If Spirit is real, its creations must 
be real. All we can ever know of Spirit or of the 
force which proceeds from it, must be learned from 
visible things. Exact Science exists only in connection 
with material things, and it is established not by pre- 
conceived theories, but by the observation and patient 
comparison and classification of the phenomena of mat- 
ter. When this is done, we know what effects are sure 
to arise from given causes, the world is safer for hu- 
manity, and human power is multiplied many fold. 

This is Science, but the denial of matter’s reality 
leaves us all adrift. For, despite Mrs. Eddy’s insist- 
ence that the properties of matter are dependent on our 
“common belief,” they are not so dependent, they have 
all been ascertained by the observations of centuries, 
and they are persistent. No amount of’ desire or pur- 
pose can change them. Fire will burn, and water will 
drown, even a Christian Scientist. This being true, 
whatever our theories, however loudly we insist that 
the visible universe is an illusion, it is nevertheless an 
illusion that cannot be dispelled, and for all practical 
purposes it is a reality. 

Granted that it is a dream, the person is yet to be 
found who has been awakened from his dream. The 
dreams of our sleep do indeed seem to have all the re- 
ality of our waking hours; but when those waking 
hours come, we are able to detect the illusion. But the 
dreams of which Christian Science says so much, are 
persistent dreams, and there is no one to awaken us. 
From generation to generation the dream endures, and 
men feel its reality just as keenly as ever. Mrs. E. 
may assert that the dream will be dispelled in death, 
but how does she know? She has never tried it, and 
I know of no one who has. When she affirms that 


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matter will some day disappear, I ask again, How does 
she know that? It is all assumption from start to 
finish, and assumption negatived by every known fact. 

2. Its statements of fact are untrue. It is not 
true that the properties of matter are the result of a 
“common belief.” Gunpowder is not explosive because 
_we believe it is. So faras can be ascertained, the first 
explosion was an accident, and utterly unexpected. 
' The poisonous qualities of certain chemical substances 
| have been ascertained by experiment, and that without 
the slightest previous conception of their nature. Our 
knowledge of the comparative value of different sub- 
stances as food does not depend on human opinion, but 
upon careful analysis, which often reveals facts never 
' suspected before. The spheroidal form of the heavenly 
bodies is not the result of our common belief, for until 
the telescope revealed the truth, few indeed thought or 
_ cared whether they were round or flat. The accurate 
prediction of eclipses is not based on human opinions, 
but upon observations and calculations which very few 
have the time or patience to make. In short, this 
principle of Christian Science cannot produce a single 
ascertained fact in its support. 

3. Its claims involve endless absurdities and 
contradictions. For instance, the common belief here 
is that the world is round. A few insist that it is flat, 
like a dinner plate; but we have the majority opinion, 
and therefore, says Christian Science, itis round. But, 
what about the belief of the multitudes who have never 
heard of the Copernican theory? In China not one 
man ina thousand believes as we do. Probably the 
same is true in India, Central Asia, and the most of 
Africa. Supposing a careful canvass could be made to- 
morrow, and it were discovered that three-fifths of the 
race believed the world to be flat, would that make it 
so? It certainly seems flat to every observer, and the 


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belief that it is round has prevailed among us in spite 
of appearances and previous belief: men have been 
forced to admit what their forefathers denied! But 
according to this new Science, such a canvass would 
prove that the world is flat after all, and all the vast 
sum of human observations would go for naught. 

Men once believed that electricity was a substance 
which passed from one place to another, as water falls 
in the form of rain, or runs through pipes. Indispu- 
table facts have driven scientific men to abandon this 
theory, except in a modified form. The masses of men 
who are familiar with the modern wonders of electric- 
ity, undoubtedly still look upon it as men did at first, 
while the majority of the race do not even know of its 
existence. Therefore, according to Christian Science, it 
is a fluid, it is not a fluid, and it is nothing at all—ac- 
cording to the time and place where you live. And, if 
you want to be perfectly sure what it is, or whether it 
even exists, we can only settle the matter by a world- 
wide canvass of human belief—which is admittedly im- 
possible. Therefore, we shall never know whether the 
world is round or flat, or whether electricity is a fluid 
or a force. 

But, when we think of it, it is not important that we 
should know, for really there is no earth, and no elec- 
tricity! Only, somehow, it is so hard to rid ourselves 
of the “belief” that both are stern realities. For, when 
the contractor runs his canal through the plain,-and 
fails to allow for the earth’s curvature, he soon finds 
that something has gone wrong, and this something is 
not made right until he assumes that the earth is round 
and not flat. And when the modern Electrician, en- 
trusted with lighting a city or running a long line of 
trolley cars, ignores the facts which observation has 
shown to exist, he soon finds himself out of a job, and 
in disgrace as dishonest or incompetent. 


CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 25 


There was once an Irishman who was was tried ona 
serious charge. When asked if he were “Guilty, or not 
guilty,” he replied, “And sure, your Honor, how can I 
tell till I hear the ividence!” According to Christian 
Science, every question regarding things seen or unseen, 
should be left unanswered till we “hear the ividence,” 
i. e. get a vote on the subject! 

You find a bottle containing an unknown liquid, 
placed there no one knows when or by whom, and you 
carry it toa chemist, and ask what effect it will have 
if drank. There is no common belief here, for no one 
knows whatitis. The chemist tells you that itisa 
new compound never heard of before, and he can only 
surmise what its effects will be. You set it away, and 
some day your child drinks it, and is killed. Whose 
belief was operative here? This is a supposed ease, 
surely, but in more than one instance have men been 
killed by unknown substances, and laboratories have 
been wrecked by unknown explosives. 

Again, you are thinking about Life Insurance, know- 
ing that the time will come when your friends will 
think you are dead, even if you are not sure about it. 
When youenter the examining physician’s room, you 
consider yourself in perfect health. Every one who 
knows you believes you to be good for many years of 
life. The physician never saw you before, and has no 
personal interest in either your life or death. He ex- 
amines you not as a friend, nor as an enemy, but as one 
employed by the Company to discover the facts in your 
case. 

The examination is over, he gives you no hint con- 
cerning his opinion—which may perhaps be still un- 
formed, and you are so confident what it will be, that 
you do not care to ask him. After you are gone he 
sums up the facts, and sends his report to the Company. 
In a few days you receive a notice containing the 


26 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 


unpleasant word “declined.” You are naturally disap- 
pointed, and your friends feel sure that the Company 
has refused a first-class risk. 

A few weeks later you drop dead on the street, and 
to their astonishment your friends learn that the phy- 
sician informed the Company on the day of the exam- 
ination, that you would not live three months! It was 
not “common belief” that killed you, for no such belief 
existed. The majority of opinion was in your favor, 
but the minority opinion prevailed—as it generally 
does. For, many of the conclusions of science run 
squarely across the beliefs of the mass of mankind! 

4. It is contradicted by the acts of Christian Scien- 
tists themselves. Now, I sympathize with Christian 
Scientists in their opposition to drug medication, and 
attribute much of their apparent success to this fact. 
Unquestionably their thought of the “supremacy of 
spirit” isa great factor in helping men to overcome 
disease by will-power. But when they assert that mat- 
ter is unreal, and that there is no disease, sickness or 
death, there is not a Christian Scientist who does not 
daily give the lie to this assertion. 

They tell you that food does not affect health, but 
they all use more or less care in that direction. Yon- 
der trolley car is only a belief of mortal mind, yet not a 
sane Scientist dare step in front of it as it whirls by. 
They go to Europe over an unreal sea, on an imagina- 
ry steamer, but they carefully cling to the belief of the 
steamer rather than trust themselves to the imaginary 
sea. Money, like other material things, is an illusion; 
nevertheless, “cash down” is the motto of every Chris- 
tian Scientist Practitioner and Publisher. The illusion 
of books and instruction must be paid for by the illusion 
of money! Men are not dependent on the senses for 
communication with the universe, yet they say Mrs. 
Eddy wears glasses, and many of her followers certainly 


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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 27 


do; and they all change their imaginary clothing to 
correspond with the imaginary changes of the weather. 

Of course, people can hear without ears, yet I know 
of a Christian Scientist lady in this city who, with ears 
apparently as good as mine, persists in being very hard 
of hearing. They tell us that man is eternal, and 
death is an illusion; but those who so confidently as- 
sert.this, persist in growing old: and if things keep on 
as they are now going, they will all be dead before 
many years. At least, we shall think they are dead, and 
they will probably not try to convince us of our error. 
If our Scientist friends will thus persist in their illu- 
sions when they know perfectly well that they are 
illusions, how can they expect us to believe that to 
which every act of their own lives gives the lie? 

In short, there is about as much Science in this Sys- 
tem as there was in the old fancy that the moon was 
made of green cheese, or that the earth rested on a huge 
turtle. And by the way, how do we know that the 
moon was not once green cheese, inasmuch as so many 
people believed it was? Now it is undoubtedly rock, 
for the common belief has so decided. How much can- 


| Vassing and wire-pulling would it probably take to re- 


verse the common belief, and thus have a moon of green 
cheese again? Soberly,a more colossal piece of pre- 
sumption and impudence cannot be found, than the 


| attempt of this System to put on the mask of Science, 


and call itself by her name. The donkey who, hidden be- 


| neath the lion’s skin, frightened . the beasts of the field 
| until he opened his mouth and proclaimed himself to 


the world a donkey and nota lion, must have been a 
near relative of Christian Science! 
What is Christian Science? 
What is the origin, the inspiration, and the ultimate 
purpose of this System? In answer to this I shall 


| make assertions without argument, and leave you to 


28 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 


verify my words at your leisure. If you investigate 
the matter fully, you will know that I am correct. 

In the foundation principle of Christian Science, 
namely, that Spirit is the.only reality, and matter is an 
illusion, we have a revival of that old Eastern philoso- 
phy which is found in India to-day, especially in Brah- 
minism, in almost identically the same form. The 
Hindoo Maya, or “illusion personified,” is to the Hast 
Indian what the results of “mortal mind” are to Chris- 
tian Scientists. If Mrs. Eddy “discovered” this prinei- 
ple, it was the discovery of that which was believed 
in the East long before she was born. That is, 

[chistes Science is simply pagan philosophy dressed 

2% ) up in the robes of Christianity, and wearing the mask 

“Lof Science. But, while the hands are the hands of 

Esau, the voice is the voice of Jacob—the supplanter. 

The lion’s skin makes an imposing show, but the don- 
key’s bray is but a faint semblance of the lion’s roar! 

This is no fancy of mine. European residents of 
India have expressed the most profound astonishment 
on coming to this country, to see men and women of 
apparently sound mind, even members of Christian 
churches, following blindly the same mystical, pagan 
nonsense against which they have been contending ever 
since missions were first established there. They insist 
that it is the same thing under a very thin disguise, and 
that, while its contact with Christianity may for a time 
avert the results which have followed in its train there, 
still, God only knows what the outcome will be here. 

What amazes me beyond measure, is the fact that so 
many can be found who will accept the absurdities 
and contradictions put forth in the name of Christianity 
and of Science, with all the gullibility of the child who 
swallows the nauseous pill because of its sugar coating. 
It is the tinsel of Christianity and Science which makes 
the thing go, but the medicine inside will put in its 


CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 29 


work in due time. Long ago the Devil failed to over-\ 


throw Christianity by persecution. But he has evi- 


dently learned something, and is now accomplishing by _ 


fraud what he could not accomplish by force. It isa 
greater victory for him to bring a Christian under the 
power of this latter-day delusion, than to burn him at 
the stake, only to see a hundred eae rea spring 
from his ashes! 

But where, in this System, is the secret of its success? 
Why are there so many, never before willing to be iden- 
tified with anything called Christian, who are so glad 
to be knownas Christian Scientists? I will suggest 
but one reason:—If Christian Science be true, then xo 
man is personally accountable to God. This may not 
appear on the surface, but it follows beyond possibil- 
ity of denial. And, if not accountable, then—however 
much restraint may arise from present surroundings— 
God only can tell what practical results will eventually 
follow. Disbelief in man’s accountability. to God is 
often merely a point of departure, the contact of the 
tangent with the circle: the end is hidden in the depths 
of the infinities! Of this we may be sure, as has been 
written, that “nearly all departures from the truth agree 
in their common dislike of personal accountability to a 
living God, and in their attempts, either by open attack 
or subtle deception, to get rid of it.” This fact, almost 


self-evident to those who have studied the matter care- , 


fully, explains the animus of Christian Science, gives 
promise of its logical outcome, and hints darkly at its 
demoniac origin. 

Christian friends, this is the time for us to cling 
closely to the written Word. In this way, only, can we 
be sure of detecting the counterfeits of these Last Days, 
and escaping the snares of Satan. Had there been 
more preaching of the Word, and less of human theo- 
ry in Christian pulpits during the last fifty years, there 


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214 ie CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 


would be far less of Christian Science and kindred 
delusions to-day. 

Christian Science friends, though acknowledging 
your honesty, intelligence and moral excellence, I must 
tell you frankly that the Devil himself is behind the 
System with which you are connected; and you cannot 
afford to maintain any relations with him. And you, 
along with many others, are fulfilling the prophecy of 
Paul in 1 Tim. 4: 1—2, and 2 Tim. 3: 1—13, concerning 
the events which will closely precede the personal 
return of Jesus Christ. 

Do you say the Devil is dead? Yes, perhaps he is— 
just as the old English robber was dead, when he cir- 
culated his own obituary through the Kingdom, and as 
a consequence made the biggest haul of his life. If the 
Devil can convince men that he is dead—as he has of 
late succeeded wonderfully in doing, his power to de- 
ceive them will be mightily increased. And the Day 
is coming apace when you will know that my warning 
is not an idle one, and will understand that his secret 
purpose in all this is to rob men of their hope of eter- 
nal life—that life which God has given unto us, but 
which is now “in His Son.” 

Finally, let us be watchful and prayerful, for we 
know not what delusion will come to light next. The 
perils of the Last Days are ever thickening around us, 
and the final crash will surely come sooner or later. 
God help us to examine well the foundations of our 
faith and hope, that we may know before the storm 
breaks, and judgment falls upon a sinful world, that we 
have been building—not on sinking sand, but on the 
Rock Christ Jesus. Amen. 

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SAFEGUARD PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
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THE 


SAVPHEGUARD AND ARMORY. 
EpwArp Payson Woopwarp, EpiTor. 


Vor. 4, No.4. APRIL, 1900.  Wuoxz No., 16. 


Che Hnnual Meetina. 


The First Annual Meeting of the Safeguard 
Publishing Company was held at 9.00 A. M., Jan. 
20, 1900, at the Company’s office, 305 Cumberland St., 
Portland, Maine,—Pres’t D. H. Woodard in the chair. 

Prayer was offered by E. P. Woodward, and the 
minutes of the Meeting of Organization were read and 
accepted. 

The Manager presented a list of members who had 
joined during the past year. Voted to confirm the same 
as members of the S. P. Co. 

On motion of E. P. Woodward, the holder of the con- 
trolling interest in the Corporation, it was 

Voted, That all voting done at this meeting be done 
by individual vote, and not by “shares.” 

The Manager then presented the following Report, 
which was accepted. 


MANAGER'S REPORT. 


To the members of the Safeguard Publishing Company. 
Dear Brethren and Sisters :— 

The following is my report of work and progress during 
the fifteen months since accounts were opened for the pro- 
spective Corporation, finally formed Feb. 25,1899. 

During this time we have published forthe Company, of 
Tracts, Magazines and Circulars, 20.250 copies, making 
1.126.000 pages of reading matter. This required about 1 1-4 
tons of paper, costing about $100,00, 


Z Editorial. 


During the same time, though since April, 1899, we have 
printed forthe Scriptural Publication Society of Yarmouth, 
Maine, of Magazines and Tracts, 118.000 copies, making 
1.410.800 pages of reading matter. Also, for other parties, 
3.800 copies of tracts, making 37.600 pages of reading mat- 
ter. Paper used, 1 3-5 tons. 

Total work done during the year, inthe way of printed 
matter, 142.050 copies, making 2.554.400 pages. Paper used, 
2 17-20 tons, costing about $230.00. The work of the S.P.S. 
has now been transferred to Boston, that Association going 
out of business. 

Our own publications we have been circulating princi- 
pally by mailing to our regular subscribers. Our subscrip- 
tion list has steadily increased, every quarter showing definite 
gains—the last quarter, though at atime ofthe year when 
least expected, showing about 100 net gain. These are com- 
ing from all directions, and from people in every Denomina- 
tion. They are distributed among forty States and 
Territories, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, New Bruns- 
wick, Nova Scotia, England and British India. Cheering 
letters are constantly being received, which show that many 
are being helped and strengthened in the Christian life, and 
that the great truth of Christ's Return, so prominent in our 
Magazine, is winning new believers through our publications. 


Free Tract Distribution. 


We have sent out from the office, free, Tracts and Maga- 
zines amounting to $300.73, aggregating 267.574 pages 
of reading matter. These were largely single copies of spe- 
cial numbers of the Safeguard and Armory, and mostly sent 
to Ministers—over 2.000 in all. The actual aggregate re- 
sults of this work will never be known on earth, but in many 
cases very gratifying and encouraging communications have 
been received in reply, aud also a fair number of new sub- 
scriptions. Very many of our new subscribers have taken 
allthe back numbers, a practise which shows no signs of 
abatement. 

Our present Membership is seventy-two, representing sub- 
scriptions for 2582 1-2 shares, of which number 2506 1-2 shares 
are paid for. I believe the unpaid shares will surely be paid 
forin due time. The work of obtaining new members is 
still going on, and promises to continue indefinitely. 


Editorial. 3 


We have added to our visible assets during the fifteen 
months as follows, 
Permanent Machinery and fixtures, including type, 
etc., bought to use in the work of theS. P.S., $160.75 


Electrotype Plates and Cuts, 214.50 
Copyrights (9) valued at 25.00 

Manufactured Magazines and Tracts, and Books 
purchased for sale, 72.12 
Net Ledger Accounts—Good— 30.00 
Cash on Hand, 44,97 
Making a total net gain of $547.34 

Our Assets are as follews: 

Permanent machinery, type, fixtures, etc., $710.75 
Electrotype Plates and Cuts, 864.50 

Manufactured Books and Tracts, and Books and 
Merchandise for sale, TOTAL 
Thirty-nine copyrights, valued at 75.00 
Due on Mail List. net, $196.50, valued at 175.00 
Ledger accounts, $195.75, valued at 190.00 
Cash on Hand, 172.00 
Total, $2944.37 
Liabilities—Bills payable, 120.00 
Net Assets, $2824.37 


While all the aboveis very small and insignificant com- 
pared with other enterprises, I think we are justified in be- 
lieving that it indicates healthy growth, especially as not a 
dollar has been expended in advertising the work. And 
belteving that this Work is of God, I expect that it 
will continue to grow, and prove effective in forwarding 
the Master’s interests. 

Although the year to come will very likely show smaller 
figures insome directions owing to the retirement of theS. 
P.S., and our consequent loss of its work, I believe just as 
much good will be accomplished, and possibly more. Many 
plans are formed which may be carried out during another 
year, which I trust will enlarge our area of influence, and 
increase the efficiency of our work. 

Trusting your hearty cooperation and prayers will continue 
for the success of the Association, I am, for the Master, 

Sincerely yours, 
E. P. Woopwarp, Manager. 


4 Editorial. 


The Treasurer then presented the following Report, 
which, with the accompanying Report of the Auditor, 
was accepted. 


TREASGRER’S REPORE. 
E. P. Woodward, Treasurer, In account with the SArr- 
GUARD PUBLISHING CoMPANY, as follows :— 
Dr. 
To Cash on hand, Oct. 1, 1898, $127.03 
yf ** received from Oct. 1, ’98, to Jan. 1, 1900, 
from ‘‘Shares’’ sold, Contributions, Subscriptions 
to Safeguard and Armory, Outside work done, 
Sales of books and merchandise, Advertising, and 


Interest on deposits, $1079.80 
Total, $1206.83 
Cr. : 
By Cash paid for Rent, $129.00 
DUA ial eared lel; 235.14 
anes “Printing, wrapping and writing 
paper, and envelopes, 117.80 


Soe “ “  Electrotyping and Press work, 148.47 
ee ene “es New Material in office :-type, 


fixtures, etc., 189.86 
tere ** «Books purchased for sale, 

Clubbing expenses, and MS. 

purchased, 104.00 
ern ** Insurance, 10.05 
Ree ys Nee ee New Copyrights, 10.15 
Phd “« “Travelling expenses of Manager 

(returned as Contribution), 15.80 
OY Beas “« “Postage, first, second and 

third class, 37.06 
ied ‘¢ “Express on material to 

and from office, freight, and 
Beige ee tees packing boxes, 26.04 
Saas “«  ** Miscellaneous, (articles and 

expenses in office, billed), 11.46 
ceo nang.) san. Ly, 1900; 172.00 

Total, $1206.83 


Respectfully Submitted, 
E, P. Woopwarp, Treasurer, 


Editorial. 5 


Portland, Maine, Jan. 20, 1900. 
This is to certify that I have examined the foregoing cash 
entries, and have found the items properly and correctly 
entered and vouched for, and I find balance on hand to be 
one hundred and seventy-two ($172.00) dollars. 
Gro. E. Smira, Auditor. 
The Secretary then presented the following Report, 


which was accepted. 


SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
Portland, Me., Jan. 20, 1900. 
To the members of the Safeguard Publishing Co:— 

Your Secretary 
has no report to offer, there having been no meetings since 
the last Annual Meeting. 

Respectfully submitted, L. D. MARSHALL, Sec. 


Voted, To proceed to the election of Officers for the 
ensuing year. Lewis A. Lupien was appointed Teller. 

D. H. Woodard was elected President, Geo. B. Grif- 
fith, Vice-President, and L. D. Marshall, Secretary. Myr. 
Marshall declining to serve, and his resignation being 
accepted, Herbert S. Dyer of Portland was chosen to 
fill the vacancy. 

KE. P. Woodward was then elected Manager and 
Treasurer, Geo. E. Smith, Auditor, and J. Bb. Totten, 
Member of the Executive Committee. E. P. Woodward 
was also elected Editor of the Safeguard and Armory. 

No further business coming before the meeting, it 


was voted to adjourn. 
L.. D. Marswart, Secretary. 


THOUGH DEEPLY REGRETTING that our late Secretary 
did not feel at liberty to act another year, we are very 
glad to secure so able a successor, a gentleman connect- 
ed with the Life Insurance business, and a member of 
our city government, who is well known as a practical 
business man, and a warm friend of all good enterprises. 

WE ARE HOPEFUL of success for the coming year, and 
we ask your prayers and cooperation to that end. 


6 Lditorial. 


OUR WORK—OUR NEEDS. 


We ask you to peruse the foregoing Report, and then an- 
swer the question, Shall we not push our Work harder than 
ever? Beginning with practically no capital, we have built 
up a business which gives promise of great usefulness. 
Working on lines where there is practically no competition, 
we have abundant opportunity for growth and progress. 
With no Guarantee Fund to draw upon, we have in one 
year given away Tracts and Magazines to the value of 
$300. 00, —more than a quarter of a million pages. 

The words ‘‘Prophetic Tract Mission’? in our Corporate 
name stand for one of the most important features of our 
Work, and one which is not a specific feature of any other 
enterprise. Whatthe world needs to-day, far more than it 
needs novels and illustrated Magazines, is Prophetic Tracts 
—short, concise, free from fanaticism and cant, and bearing 
vitally on the impending Crisis in human affairs. 

To make such literature effective, much of it must be scat- 
tered free. Ministers who are not familiar with these sub- 
jects, must be stirred up to investigate them. Religious 
papers must be furnished with copies for Review. In read- 
ing rooms and libraries these things must be made accessible 
to the people. How shall we do it? 

We have already solved the problem. In every direction, 
and through every avenue, we are constantly pressing these 
truths on the people. During the first three months of 1900, 
among other things, we have sent one or more copies of our 
Magazine to nearly 400 Ministers and public men, and for re- 
view to nearly 900 religious and secular papers, —aggregating 
nearly 150.000 pages, and valued at $135.00. This in 
three months, And we are planning for a continuation on 
the same scale. But to keep this up, We must have 
funds. How shall we obtainthem? We will tell you. 

1. Pay arrearages due on your subscription, and sub- 
scribe in advance. 

2. Procure new subscribers, so that we may at least double 
our subscription list. 

3. Study our Clubbing List, and remit for your family 
paper or Magazine through our office. 

4. Buy Shares in our Company, thus furnishing 
us needed funds, and placing yourselves in touch with us. 

5. Act as volunteer agents in your town or city, introdu- 
cing our publications and soliciting donations for shares. 
There are thousands of people who would gladly help us if 
they knew our needs. 

7. Pray to our Father that we may haye strength and 
wisdom for this Work, and that every dollar expended may 
bring an abundant harvest. By doing as suggested above, 
our Work will be made a glorious success. 


“I 


Editorial. 


WE GLADLY CORRECT AN ERROR inadvertently made in 
our January editorial, when we wrote, ‘‘To our intense sur- 
prise, when it appeared, with it also appeared a carefully 
prepared answer from the person criticised.’ The facts 
were these: the ‘“‘carefully prepared answer” did not appear 
in the Herald of Life in connection with our article, but did 
appear later, in connection with the publication in pam- 
phlet form of our article and the Editor’s reply. Our “‘sur- 
prise’ was occasioned first, by the peculiar nature of the 
Editor’s reply, but principally by the discovery that an ar- 
gument which was already so complete that its publication 
in the Herald was to be ‘the ending of the matter,’ had 
been republished elsewhere by the Herald Association in 
connection with new matter to which we were perforce ur- 
able to reply! However, our lapse of memory in this mat- 
ter, especially when the error could so easily have been 
detected, hardly justifies the implied charge of ‘‘misrepre- 
sentation’’ from the Editor: and we are glad to know that 
the writer criticised does not share the Editor’s apparent 
feelings in the matter. 

IN CONNECTION WITH THIS, we recall our previous men- 
tion of certain facts indicating that the Herald management 
are afraid to allow any criticism on the writings of regular 
contributors, unless those contributors prepare a reply for 
publication simultaneously with the criticism—something 
we have never noticed elsewhere. To what we have already 
said upon this point, we add the following:—Since our Jan- 
uary issue we wrote for the Herald a short criticism of a 
contributor who had based a doctrinal argument on an al- 
leged usage of the Greek language. Along with the criti- 
cism we sent a query as to whether the Editor was not will- 
ing to print it without first submitting it to the person 
criticised. In due time we found that it had been thus 
submitted; that while our own article had not been pub- 
lished, the person criticised had used our “heading” for an 
article of his own; that in his article—which was really a 
reply to ours—he had quoted just three lines from our criti- 
cism; and that, while admitting our ‘“‘probable”’ correctness, 
he had written nearly half a column to break the force of our 
words in their bearing on the doctrine he was trying to 
bolster up—the non-resurrection of the wicked dead. This 


8 Editorial. 


is another indication to us of Editorial timidity which goes 
far to confirm the charge made by Bro. Wendell. Is it pos- 
sible that the Herald dare not publish a criticism of anything 
which appears in its columns, and then give its readers one 
week to think the matter over before the reply is published! 
. WE wIsH TO SAY, also, that we have never ‘“‘complained”’ 
that Bro. Wendell was shut out of the Herald, for we know 
nothing whatever as to the truth of his charge. But we do 
know what he said about it, and from what we ourselves 
have seen, we are inclined to believe that he told the truth, 
even though that involves forgetfulness on the part of some 
one else. We will only add, if the Herald has the ‘‘truth”’ 
as to the resurrection of the wicked, there is no need of such 
scrupulous defense of its ‘‘lines of communication.” 


Our OcToBER NUMBER, containing Romanism and the 
Reformation”’ in full, with ‘‘notes and comments,’’ mak- 
ing a book of more than £00 pages, will be worth double 
our subscription price. Do not fail to read the full page 
advertisement. Dr. Guinness’ portrait will be in the book. 

Our JULY NUMBER, on “Futurism—a Romanist Error,” 
will contain a complete chapter from ‘‘Romanism and the 
Reformation’ bearing on the subject of Futurism, and 
those who read it will get a sample of Dr. Guinness’ forceful 
and inimitable style. Weshall publish a large edition of 
this number, to be used in preparing the way for the Octo- 
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READ OUR PRosPEctTus for 1900—1901. Volume Five 
will be the best yet. Double and quadruple our subscrip- 
tion list, and we hope to lift still higher our standard of 
excellence. Read the page headed ‘*PLEASE LOOK.”’’ 

INCREASED COST OF PAPER and printing material, in ad- 
dition to the great size of our October number, will make 
our expenses much heavier the coming year. Will our 
friends please remember this, and aid us in some way as 
suggested in ‘*Our Work—Our Needs.”’ 

Sickness—of ourself and in our family, wholly disabling 
for atime, and causing a loss of six weeks, is our excuse 
for delay in issuing this number. We hope there will be 
no further trouble in this direction. Brethren, pray for us. 


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Editorial. 9 


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 


“How can I make it plain that ‘Gog’ and ‘Magog’ in Ezek. 
88, mean Russia?’ I. N. T 

That Ezekiel here refers to modern Russia is largely a 
matter of inference. The reasons for this inference are 
somewhat as follows:— 

*“Magog”’ evidently refers to the people, and ‘‘Gog”’ to 
their King. Magog wasa son of Japheth, and early tradition 
assigns his place of settlement as northern Asia. Josephus 
says his descendants were the Scythians of that day, who 
lived north of the Caucasus, and who were found by the 
Greeks in southern Russia, in the seventh century B. C. 
Ezekiel certainly speaks of Gog coming from the “north,” 
and most expositors regard the term as having a ‘“‘geograph- 
ical’’ significance: i. e., referring to the people of the north, 
whatever race might be living there. 

Mohammed speaks in the Koran of ‘“‘Yagug and Magug’’— 
Gog and Magog—as living north of the Caucasian mountains, 
and the Moslem world to-day regards Russia as the Power 


“mentioned by Mohammed. Certainly, if Russia is not 


meant, no other Power can fill the picture. The evidence 
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te Ill. The Beginning of Sorrows. 
is Iv. The Destruction of Jerusalem, 
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zn A Signs on the Earth, 
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a Xi. Waning Love and Abounding Iniquity. 
me Xill. False Christs and False Prophets. 
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Lt! XVII, Darkened Sun and Moon, and Falling Stars, 
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a? Vil, Watch Ye, Therefore. 
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